Best Indie Short: Manchukuo, 1943, Summer by Yifan Xiang (USA)
Best Drama Short: Amanda by Ty Cooper (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Uncommon Garden by Olympia Stone (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Spice Things Up by Joe Lankheet (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Gate by Philip Cooney (USA)
Best Action Short: Almost There by Chuck Johnson (Japan)
Best Film Noir Short: The Blackjack Hotel by Michael Gummelt (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Recoil by Dylan Meyer (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Beverly Ever After by John Kestner (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Psyche Obscura by Craig Oty (USA)
Best Student Short: Melancholic Beauty by Robert Burns (USA)
Best Animation Short: The Invisible Army by Michael Krymchantowski and Jonathan Manuel Camargo Labeau (USA)
Best Children Short: The Invisible Army by Michael Krymchantowski and Jonathan Manuel Camargo Labeau (USA)
Best Women Short: A Leap into the Void by Mary Frances Attias, Adrian Diaz, and Adrian Francis Santana (Dominican Republic)
Best LGBTQ Short: eXcape by Molly Rose Heller (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Ashes to Ashes by George Zouvelos and Deanna Doyle (USA)
Best Microfilm: Glimpse by Matthew Gomez (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Bon Appetit by Tessa Elizabeth Fixter-Coniglio (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Silver & Gold by Alonge Hawes (USA)
Best Director (Female): Olympia Stone for The Uncommon Garden (USA)
Best Director (Male): Ty Cooper for Amanda (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Juwon Kim for Mosaic (South Korea)
Best Student Director (Male): Dylan Meyer for Recoil (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Rongheng Sun for Diving (China)
Best First Time Director (Male): Ian Williams for Our Beautiful World (USA)
Best Actress: Clara Livingston for Acquiescence (USA)
Best Actor: Domenico Saverni for A Warm Spring’s Night (Italy)
Best Acting Duo: Annie Sullivan and Miles Crawford for Victor’s Secret (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Kenny Tiller and Jarric Tucker for Art of the Hustle (USA)
Best Cinematography: Yifan Xiang for Manchukuo, 1943, Summer (USA)
Best Editing: ZangChen and Yihong Huang for Just Another Day (China)
Best Production Design: Annie Chen Hall for This is Their Land (USA)
Best Sound Design: Almost There (Japan)
Best Original Score: Hélène Choyer for Radio Moon (Egypt)
Best Original Story: Mohamed Sadik for Radio Moon (Egypt)
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